This publication is designed to accompany the video that must be viewed as part of the licensing process for anyone wishing to purchase seed of transgenic papaya cultivars. It describes the transformed University of Hawai‘i ...

A transformed papaya cultivar combining the superior quality of Hawai‘i’s “solo” papayas with resistance to papaya ringspot virus is briefly described, and questions about genetic engineering are addressed.

Papaya fruits may fall from the plant when about golf-ball size due to lack of pollination of a female flower. The distinction between female and hermaphrodite papaya plants is described. With “solo” papaya cultivars, ...